Prime Minister David Cameron has stated that the U.K. government will look at “switching off” some forms of encryption in order to make society safer from terror attacks. This might make a grand statement but it is impossible to implement and extremely technologically naive.
Encryption is a core part of the Internet; it’s use is increasing every day—Google’s services, including search and email, use encrypted streams, as do Facebook and Twitter and many other widely used sites. Encryption makes it almost impossible for eavesdroppers to read the contents of the traffic. It is the foundation upon which all e-commerce is based.
Encryption is a core part of the Internet. It is also the foundation upon which all e-commerce is based.
